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SOAPY SMITH – KING OF THE KLONDIKE CONMEN
David Ellis THE self-styled ‘Reverend’ Charles Bowers and ‘Colonel’ Jefferson Smith were thinking neither the word of the Lord nor the Law when they arrived in frontier Skagway, Alaska in 1897 – it was the gleaming metal of the Klondike Gold Rush they were after. But they had no intention of clambering torturous […]
DUKE’S AMBUSH REAPS PALATIAL REWARD
david ellis AFTER John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, marched 56,000 British and Austrian troops five weeks from the Low Countries to the Danube in 1704 to defeat an even greater number of French in the Battle of Blenheim during the War of Spanish Succession, his Queen on his return home asked what she […]
DUKE’S AMBUSH REAPS PALATIAL REWARD
david ellis AFTER John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, marched 56,000 British and Austrian troops five weeks from the Low Countries to the Danube in 1704 to defeat an even greater number of French in the Battle of Blenheim during the War of Spanish Succession, his Queen on his return home asked what she […]
WINERY’S PAST ALL BRITS AND BUSHRANGERS
David Ellis THREE British Army officers serving together in India seem an unlikely genesis for what would become one of the great success stories of the Australian wine industry. Much the same as a young 16 year old simply under the guidance of his dad would go on to become one of the greatest winemakers […]
WINERY’S PAST ALL BRITS AND BUSHRANGERS
David Ellis THREE British Army officers serving together in India seem an unlikely genesis for what would become one of the great success stories of the Australian wine industry. Much the same as a young 16 year old simply under the guidance of his dad would go on to become one of the greatest winemakers […]
World’s Longest Golf Course
FOUR DAYS FOR 18-HOLES A BIT ROUGH david ellis YOU’VE got to have a pretty good explanation when you saying you’re going out for a game of golf and you don’t come home for four days. But that’s the average on Australia’s newest course, Nullarbor Links where every hole of this 18-hole track has a […]
World’s Longest Golf Course
FOUR DAYS FOR 18-HOLES A BIT ROUGH david ellis YOU’VE got to have a pretty good explanation when you saying you’re going out for a game of golf and you don’t come home for four days. But that’s the average on Australia’s newest course, Nullarbor Links where every hole of this 18-hole track has a […]
ITALIAN WINEMAKER’S HOME IS HIS CASTLE
David Ellis TAKE yourself off to Italy’s Barone Ricasoli winery and you’ll discover more than a winery – a captivating medieval castle, in fact, that has survived countless wars and feudal attacks from its very earliest days in the Middle Ages, to aerial and artillery bombardments during World War II. And while absorbing everything from […]
ITALIAN WINEMAKER’S HOME IS HIS CASTLE
David Ellis TAKE yourself off to Italy’s Barone Ricasoli winery and you’ll discover more than a winery – a captivating medieval castle, in fact, that has survived countless wars and feudal attacks from its very earliest days in the Middle Ages, to aerial and artillery bombardments during World War II. And while absorbing everything from […]
TWO-WHEEL COASTAL SIGHTSEEING’S A BREEZE
David ElliswithMike Smith FOR as long as he likes to remember, Wollongong’s Steve Melchior has had a passion for motor cycles, especially those with the Harley-Davidson badge. With the wind whistling through his handle-bar moustache, Steve has little hesitation to announce “I just love this job”. And why not, when you consider that eight […]
